"Come on, maybe I can help you with your problem," he insisted. I took a deep sigh as I looked him in the eyes and I saw his sincerity. "My mate rejected me and his father ordered his bodyguards to beat me and threw me to the cliff. He said that I might bring bad luck to his son if he accepted me as his mate," I said with sadness creeping up my face. That's all I can tell to him right now, it seems like he does not know who I am so for my own safety, I won't say to him that I have the blood of a witch running through my veins. "And care to name your mate who rejected you?" he asked again. "His name is Matthew, the forthcoming Alpha of his pack," I held on my pendant, "And this one wrapped around my neck is the only thing he left for me." Tears run down my face as I tell my horrible story to him. After saving my life, I think there is nothing wrong to pour out all my anger to him as I rushed toward him and hugged him tightly. He accepted my embrace and rubbed my back to com
RHEA POVI can really see the sincerity in Atlas's eyes. He is really determined to serve the other rogues for the rest of his life. As we were heading back toward his fortress, he started collapsing on the ground. I managed to catch his head though. He looked pale and weak, he was only relying on me. "What happened to you?" I asked in wonder. He gave me a wide smile even though his face was already twisted with pain, "Maybe I overused my strength in fighting my cousin. But rest assured that I'm okay.""Hold on a second, would you like me to get food for us?""No, I just wanted to rest my body," he answered with a weak voice. I wanted to panic right now. I felt so damn guilty that Atlas put his life on the line just to protect someone like me. "Altas, you are a great leader of your pack but it's unnecessary for you to engage in a trivial fight like this. I would rather leave this place than see them doing this to you.""Please do not blame yourself, Rhea, I chose to protect you wi
MATTHEW POVI'm inside my room, having an intimate dinner with Cindy who is soon-to-be my bride, along with my father. While I kept smiling at her every time our eyes met, it was the opposite of what I was feeling inside me. Until this very moment, I'm still concerned about what happened to Rhea. She is my fated mate, after all, the one whom I'm supposedly sharing my dinner with. Imagining her face, I could not help but grin slightly. I wonder if it were her I was gonna marry, it would surely be the best days of my life- and I would probably become the luckiest man alive. "It looks like you are smiling, is it because you are excited to tie the knot with your second mate?" Cindy asked, pulling me out of my thoughts. I stared at her coldly, making her feel that she did not matter to me at all- even this ridiculous wedding that my cunning evil father had set up. He is the only one in my damn family who will surely benefit from this bullshit. As per me, I would need to prepare myself b
MATTHEW POVI put my wine on the table and returned my gaze to her. "What's with the long face? Aren't you supposed to be happy that I'm still here?"I crossed my arms over my chest while keeping my straight face, "Aren't you supposed to be heading your home, Cindy? It's already midnight and I don't want to entertain any more visitors- even if it's my fiancé!""But we are getting married soon and I want to spend more time with you, is that too bad to ask? We are both grown-up adults here..."I am so annoyed with her presence. She is so damn persistent and obsessed with me. "We should abide by the rules of the Moon Goddess. Fated mates aren't allowed to sleep together not unless they are officially married. Please do not do this again, I do not have any interest in talking to someone in the middle of the night. All I want is to rest my body because I was tired because I've done so much work today."She started making a pitiful face. Until now, I still could not believe that I'd marry
MATTHEW POVI managed to sit down in a wobbling chair, and I could feel it would collapse anytime soon. I followed him with my eyes until he settled on the chair in front of me. The thunder strikes from the skies, making everything even more terrifying. "Why do I feel those thunder striking is it because I have come here? The weather was nice until I arrived here...""First of all," he said, starting at me without blinking his eyes, "I wanted you to know that I'm not an ordinary person but a cursed witch hiding from the likes of you. So believe it or not, out of all the people here, only you can see me and my house. I created a portal that connects you to my domain."I laughed at his words, This man is sick in the head- I am certain of that! "But all the witches have been eradicated many years ago! According to my father, they died in the great war along with the other creatures except for us," I exclaimed. When it comes to history, there is nobody I trust when I ask questions exce
As I am in the middle of the dark forest, I heard foot steps of someone. I closed my eyes to concentrate and someone speak to me through mind link. "Who is it?" I asked in wonder while looking around. I dropped the sheep and grapes I got from few hours of searching. "So you can also communicate with us through mind link," the familiar voice said. "Who the hell are you? Are you one of those three who attacked Atlas earlier?""I am," he answered with deep voice then I finally recognized who is it that connected to me thru mind link. "Jared, is that you? Haven't you heard what Atlas said earlier? You cannot lay your finger on me! Besides, I am not here to cause any trouble. I have come here to help Alpha Atlas. He feels so weak and he needs to regain his strength," I lengthily explained. "So please, just leave me alone and let me return the favor to him.""There is one more thing you should know about him," he said. "Something about him that would surely make you shock in fear.""And
Touching his body, I started to feel asleep until my eyes shuts. Suddenly, I heard Jared through mind link again. "Do you have a minute? I would like to talk to you for a while. Don't worry, I am not here to cause you any trouble. I just want to show you my appreciation because of what you have done to save my cousin," he said, sounding so nice and friendly but I am not convince because I smell something fishy is going on. I was so fucking terrified. The fact that Atlas is not yet waking up only means that I'm the only one who can defend myself just in case Jared attempt to attack me. "I don't want to talk to you," I said, "Please, let your cousin rest for a while. Neither of us is capable of defending ourselves.""I told you, I ain't come here to cause you any trouble. I have come here to show my appreciation."I heard heavy foot steps on the ground and it's getting louder and louder. The banging on the door came again. I am freaking tired of dealing with Jared so I decided to co
"But are you sure you are ready to fight them? I'm certain that they won't hold back even though you are their leader.""Don't worry Rhea, this is temporary. Once they see that your intention is good, they would surely step back and listen to me. For the mean time, let me protect you."Suddenly, I have heard more footsteps coming on our way. And I am certain that it's more than three people. Atlas went outside and in spite of him insisting that I should stay in the room, I followed him anyway. My jaw dropped on the floor upon seeing so many werewolves gathered in front of the Cabin. All of them were glaring at me with so much hatred and disgust in their eyes. This is worse than the mockery I experienced during the mating ball and the rejection of Matthew. I wanted to disappeared right this instant because of so much shame. I also felt guilty for Atlas for standing up for me, the thought that I am a curse and would bring nothing except misfortune came in my mind again. I bowed my hea
RHEA POVAfter the wedding and even during Saturday evening, everything seems so calm. The people who died on the battlefield was also given their respective funeral. We honored their bravery regardless of whether they are rogues or allies. But just like the rest of the days, we have to move forward with our lives. A lot of things have happened and I could no longer afford if something like this happens again. Just looking at the family of the victims hurts me from inside. What more if the person I love were on that situation. I could not imagine it to happen. Today is Sunday, and this is the day we have been waiting for. And right now, I must say that I am the most excited human being in the planet, knowing that this is the day of my marriage. Right now, Matthew hired five people for me to help me wear my while long gown. It was adorned with real diamonds and other gems that my eyes sparkled upon seeing it even though I have seen it several times. Even the helm of the gown, it loo
RHEA POVSuddenly, Matthew looked at me. "Rhea, I would like to apologize to you as well. You have been so kind and understanding of me.""As you have said, let us put everything behind the past. For now, I am truly happy to see both of you reconcile.""Matthew, please do the honor of guiding Rhea to walk downstairs.""Of course. Please have a sit on the table beside me and Rhea, I do not want you to be left out so Zeus was there. He is my youngest brother. As you have heard, we are not blood related but I treated him like a real brother. He is a kind person and open minded."Atlas just smiled at Matthew and then he headed downstairs. And when he was gone, I turned my gaze on Matthew. "Well done, I fell in love with you even more when you started hugging him. Although I also understand that you were jealous of him from the first time you heard of him.""Rhea, you are already mine so I am not worried about him anymore. So now that you see me already changed, I guess it's now time for
RHEA POVTomorrow morning, even though Matthew has not recovered just yet, he still throw a party for us. And today, the set up inside their mansion was no different from the mating ball last time. There are a lot of wines being served in the round tables. A lot of foods to choose from. There are so many balloons pinned on the wall. Red petals have been scattered on the ground. The chandeliers are illuminating so brightly up in the ceiling. And wherever I laid my eyes on, I could not see anything sad. All of them are beyond happy with what is happening right now. It seems like we have not encountered a war yesterday. Or maybe I was just assuming things. Right now, I went back to Matthew's room and changed my outfit to red in order to match the event. I also put my lipstick and made my hair curly. Just this once, I would really like to be hailed as the most beautiful woman in the eyes of Matthew. As I was looking at myself in the mirror, someone started knocking on the damn door,
CINDY POV"I guess that is what you called karma. After everything that you have done against others, this is what you get! Now, you are now a pathetic human being. A powerless individual who is now on the run because you have so many enemies chasing after you."Suddenly, he pinned me on the wall. "How dare you say such a thing like that huh? I am still the Alpha of my pack! And my powers alone is more than enough to prove that I'm still the mightiest being on this land.""Really? Then why don't you use that so called power in order to gather your supporters huh? I am so sick of you bossing me around these past few days, promising something and looked, it did not happen! So now that you owed me your life, you should know that doing this does nothing but shame on yourself."He let go of me. "I swear, I will return to the mansion and everyone is going to kneel down before me. They can have their celebration as of now. But I'm gonna take back what they stole from me... even if I do it
CINDY POVI am facing the mirror right now. I still could not believe that I've got severely wounded by that damn pest who almost killed me. If I had not pretended I died, she would sure have eliminated me completely. This battle which I thought was on our favor does not happen exactly the way I want it. And it would definitely take a lot of time for me to recover. Damn that girl, I'll make sure that the second time we'll see each other, she'll be as good as dead.Suddenly the door opened and Alpha Lorenzo came in. He was full of bondage of his body because of the wounds he sustained from his fight."If it was not for me, you are as good as dead Alpha Lorenzo!" I said while approaching him. "So you'll have to thank me first."He gave me a menacing look but I was not afraid of him in the slightest."I owed you nothing Cindy. I could easily escaped that prison without your help but since you already arrived, I just go with the flow.""Still, I was the one who saved you. So you still o
RHEA POV"Rhea, you have more than enough reason to unleash your powers. If just in case he went here, then put in your mind that he is our mortal enemy."I looked at Zeus and sheepishly smiled, "Thank you for the information Zeus. I really appreciate it, I am saddened with what happened but there is no reason for you to assign guards here. I don't think Alpha Lorenzo is ready enough to come back here considering that he already escaped. He is also weak like the rest of us. And that person who helped him out will surely not coming here since that person's priority is helping him escaped."He smiled at me and leave without saying any words, then I closed the door and locked it."I have a plan Matthew," I said as I was approaching him. "And what is that?" he asked. "Why don't we make our wedding a secret instead? At least in that way, we can make sure that we are going to have a successful wedding.""What are you talking about huh? I will never do such a thing! Of course as someone wh
RHEA POV"While I agreed with you, I think we should not focus on that one. As they say, while the iron is hot, we have to use that opportunity to marry. Because I don't want to waste anymore time. I wanted to have a family with you Rhea."I suddenly turned paled upon hearing what he has to say. While I admit, I am ready to get marry to him, something does not feel right. I think that we should spend time together, creating memories, and enjoy on each other's company.He held my hand and gave me a questioning look, "What is taking you so long to decide huh? Don't you agree with what I say? I thought you love me Rhea? So what gives?""Well... not unless your wounds have already healed, we are not going to marry just yet. So you have to promise me that you will recover as soon as possible.""Of course," he said, giving me a wide smile, "My body will recover as soon as possible and if that happens, then we are going to get married.""But before that happens, can we go to some place? I me
RHEA POV"You have a point there. None of these would have happened if my husband was a nice guy.""We cannot do something about that. But I am hoping that he could still change. After all, he is still the father of Matthew. If he asks for my forgiveness and change his way, then I am going to put all of these behind the past."She started to grab my hand and gave me a rakish smile, "Well thank you for doing that. Now I have come to realize that you are really such a kind person. You may be a witch but you prove to me that not all witch are bad. There is someone like you who exists.""By the way, what happened to Matthew while I was gone?""He was always thinking about you in his room. And he treated Cindy coldly. On the other hand, Cindy was so nice to him and she was so clingy. Matthew was irritated with her but decided not to speak up because of his father. However, I should have done something in order to prevent that from happening. I love my son so much but I have never fought fo
ZEUS POV"I see..."She looks so sad about the news that I gave her. "He asked me that you should go there and visit here. He won't be entertaining any guest aside from you."She started looking at Atlas who was lying on the bed, "But Atlas also need me by his side. I don't know if I can visit him right now. Atlas has not fully recover yet. He still needs my blood.""But my brother is still weak right now. He said that you should prioritize him because he is your fated mate. Just try to visit him first. I am so worried that he won't eat his food. Just a few minutes, leave Atlas to me, I will guard him and when he woke up, I'll explain everything to him later.""Well... Hannah is coming later, she will bring some food for Atlas. I have to be here while she is not around.""Wait... what is the relationship of Atlas to her though?""She loves Atlas but he did not love her back. But now, I want to find a way for them to be together.""Okay fine! I will explain everything to her later. Ju